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sticky-summer-13450

01/31/2023, 6:07 PM
RD 1.7.0 running on Ubuntu Linux.
/home
partition is getting full but
/var
partition is relatively empty, so I moved
/home/<ME>/.local/share/rancher-desktop/
into
/var
and made a sym-link back into
/home/<ME>/.local/share/
. Starting RD it hangs waiting for the kubernetes API to be available. Move it all back and it works again. So, is there a correct way to move the massive lima disk out of my home partition?
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fast-garage-66093

01/31/2023, 10:04 PM
This is supposed to work, assuming you meant a symlink from and not a into the original location. Something like
ln -sf /var/rancher-desktop /home/<ME>/.local/share/rancher-desktop
Have you double-checked that the symlink works properly?
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sticky-summer-13450

02/01/2023, 8:25 AM
Yes, that's what I did. Yes, the symlink worked properly. I wonder if I needed to change the permissions on all of the parent folders, they were 0755 root:root. I'll try again and report back.
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fast-garage-66093

02/01/2023, 4:54 PM
The permission for the parent folders sound fine (you just need execute permission to traverse them), but the moved directory still needs to be owned by your current user.